gingerhairedimmortal:

I’ve been trying to find a way to put these thoughts into words (words that will not bring my favourite hate anon back with a vengeance) since i-want-my-iwtv mentioned this earlier today.  However, I suppose I will take the chance because fuck it, I’m going on hiatus tomorrow anyway.

tl;dr – I think if Armand was convinced that this was something Claudia truly wanted (and let’s be honest, with his Mind Gift, it wouldn’t be hard for him to determine) then he would have no problems going forward with this relationship.  He sees Claudia mostly as the woman she is inside her mind and less as the child she is in body only.  While the relationship presents some challenges, I think it is possible and have no problems roleplaying it as such.

For the record:

This was very well-put, thank you for sharing!

[More of gingerhairedimmortal​‘s post under the cut.]

It is true that my Armand is pursuing a romantic, and hence possible sexual relationship, with a Claudia.  She has been aged up in that thread to avoid the usual legal and moral implications that would be involved with a five year old appearing body involved with a seventeen year old appearing one.  However, with the way the characters are, I would not have shied away from a relationship with a canon Claudia for them either (only used fade to black because while Armand may not have issues with it, I sort of squick at writing that).

However, the big issue for me is that while Claudia may LOOK like a child, she isn’t.  Armand, a character who is the most cerebral of the coven.  He knows what is going on in everyone’s mind and will occasionally alter it to his own liking.  Because of this, my headcanon is that outward appearance means little to him.  He sees people the way they see themselves.  So when he looks at Claudia, he sees the adult woman she truly is and not the body she is trapped in.

That does not mean to say that he is completely oblivious to the implications of a relationship with her.  It would not be possible for the two of them to be romantic in public, risking mortals making a scene.  Even the coven (particularly Louis I would think) would raise a fuss at the two of them together. These would be of concern but in the end would not sway them necessarily.

Most of all, for Armand, who was kidnapped to be used for sexual pleasure at a young age, he would be most concerned with making sure this was what SHE wanted.  Armand is portrayed over and over as selfish but I believe that he has a soft spot for victims of human trafficking and sex crimes.  It is one of the reasons I disregard anything past him meeting the sun in his canon because the whole story line with Benji and Sybelle is so far from my understanding of the character that I can’t believe it to be the same Armand.  

But I digress.